Happy Birthday Golden Gate Bridge

The 75th birthday of a famous urban icon calls for a big celebration, such as the dramatic lighting and fireworks extravaganza held on May 27, 2012 to mark the exact day the Golden Gate bridge opened in San Francisco in 1937. “The most amazing thing was the scale,” says Don Richards of Foghorn Creative, producer of the event, which spanned not only the bridge, but also an area three miles by two miles over the San Francisco Bay. “Everything started at the bridge then expanded out, with ...